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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (26344)	11/29/1998 7:53:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

X, Would never say that the Europeans didn't oppress their own, but the fabulously luxurious lifestyles of the European aristocracies were founded on money generated by the colonies. I do think it is pretty simple that the Chinese threw out much of the good when they destroyed their society By the time Mao came to power there was precious little of that society left. The decline started with the long dotage of the last dynasty, and was completed during the single bloodiest period in modern Chinese history: the anarchy that followed the 1911 revolution. The country broke down into fiefdoms governed by feuding warlords, Europe and America lined up to slice off bits of the country, the Japanese invasion and the massacres and famines that followed, and ultimately the battle between Chiang and Mao. Among those two there was little difference in viciousness, but Mao was by far the more competent of the two, at least at that time - absolute power has never done anything for anyone's sanity. Despite his actions, many Chinese still revere Mao, simply because he made China a nation again. Many older Chinese still regard the preservation of a central government capable of exerting control throughout the country as more important than anything else - even if they disapprove of that government. Given the recent history of China, I can understand how they feel, though it is hard to sympathize. I particularly recommend Barbara Tuchman's book Sand Against the Wind, an account of America's relations with China from the '20's through World War II. Very readable, and very informative. Steve